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Honey, West Bengal Shrunk the Kids

June 17, 2014
A recent paper by researchers in India shows that average Bangladeshi children are taller than their counterparts from West Bengal, when wealth is controlled for. 
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Global Health "Best Buys": The Key Is in Delivery

March 25, 2014
Successful investments in global health—or “best buys”— can be defined in many ways: a cost-effective commodity or technology, a well-trained health workforce, an evidence-informed policy, etc. We recently hosted an event in partnership with PSI, PATH, Devex, and Me...
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Is Free Care Good for Health?

February 10, 2014
A recent article shows that removing fees for health care in rural Ghana has no impact on health.  These results are strikingly similar to another recent study that found expanding the US Medicaid insurance program in Oregon also had no impact on physical health (my colleague Victoria...
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Experimentation for Better Health: Lessons from the US for Global Health

May 06, 2013
The Innovation Center at the United States Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services, created under the umbrella of the Affordable Care Act, represents a new and encouraging approach to address this problem, an approach that we think has important lessons for global health.